update-fonts-scale

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update-fonts-scale - compile fonts.scale files

SYNOPSIS

update-fonts-scaledirectory ...

DESCRIPTION

update-fonts-scale assembles a fonts.scale
file in an X font directory using one or more scale files
found in a subdirectory of /etc/X11/fonts/. It is
typically invoked only from the post-installation and
post-removal scripts of a package containing scalable
fonts (whose X LFD font names are not in the font files
themselves) for the X Window System, but may be invoked at
any time to reconstruct fonts.scale files. For each
directory, which is either an absolute path to an X
font directory or (preferably) simply the last component of
its path (such as
update-fonts-scale__ will assemble
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.scale from
the files found in
/etc/X11/fonts/directory/package.scale''.

This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in
the same directory. No font package actually provides the
fonts.scale file in the X font directory itself, so
there is no danger of overwriting one package's font names
with those of another.

For instance, the two packages
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1. They each place their
fonts.scale files in
/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/xfonts-scalable.scale and
/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/xfonts-nifty.scale
(respectively). update-fonts-scale concatenates these
two files (as well as any others that match
/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/*.scale) into
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.scale''.

The format for fonts.scale files is given in the
mkfontdir(1)? manual page.

An example of how to use update-fonts-scale in
package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy
Manual.

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